Vellino Wine Cellar

VELLINO is a small organic family winery, established in 2015 in eastern part of Georgia, Kakheti - biggest grape growing region of the country. Winemaking was our family tradition and that became the biggest motivator for us to keep and introduce this tradition to the world. Most of our wines are made exactly with this 8000 years old winemaking method, by long time skin contact process, in earthenware clay vessels - we call it Qvevri. The ideology about our wines is to be in a harmony with nature and create as healthy and high quality wines, as possible. Our wines are presented in 11 countries worldwide for that moment.

Bodbe Monastery of St. Nino

The Monastery of St. Nino at Bodbe is a Georgian Orthodox monastic complex and the seat of the Bishops of Bodbe located 2 km from the town of Sighnaghi, Kakheti, Georgia. Originally built in the 9th century, it has been significantly remodeled, especially in the 17th century. The monastery now functions as a nunnery and is one of the major pilgrimage sites in Georgia, due to its association with St. Nino, the 4th-century female evangelist of Georgians, whose relics are shrined there. The extant church – a three-nave basilica with three protruding apses – was originally built between the 9th and 11th centuries, but has been significantly modified since then. Both exterior and interior walls have been plastered and bear the traces of restoration carried out in the 17th and 19th centuries. It consists of a small hall church with an apse built over St. Nino’s grave that is integrated into a larger aisled basilica. A free-standing three-storey bell-tower was erected between 1862 and 1885.